On the Finnic and Samoyedic Genitive and Accusative Plural; pp. 34-40
Ago Künnap · Linguistica Uralica · 2008
Samoyedic languages have strong traces about contacts with Finnic languages up to the transition of Samoyeds to the Finnic language form. The supposed onetime accusative singular ending *-m and accusative plural ending *-j could not produce in Finnic any traces. Samoyedic languages clearly designate an object with the suffixes (*)-m and (*)-j. Plural markers of genitive are Finnic and Northern Samoyedic *-it(-) and Finnic and Southern Samoyedic Selkup *-t-. I for one, being convinced in the great age of the Finnic *kala-it-en and *kala-t-en types of genitive plural, see etymological equivalents of either in Samoyedic languages.